Truth Ache

Big Paul episode last night as he continues to be the nice and good-hearted kid he apparently used to be before any of us watched Neighbours, and is determined to find out the truth about everyting's he's done in the meantime. Gail made a quick trip up from Tassie, and had a talk with Elle about how much they should tell him. Gail - everything, Elle - good highlights only. Still, you can't argue with yer mum too long, so Gail headed in to tell Paul what a bastard he's been. Except she couldn't, cos there's Pauly sitting up all sparkly eyed, wanting to kiss her and being all in luv with her, and wearing not a business suit but a pretty horrid quasi-chambray shirt and Gail was all "OMG it's teh old Paul I fell in <3 with", and while she's not yet keen to get it back on, she couldn't tell him all the awfuls he'd pulled and break his heart. Still, Gail and Elle have to learn that just cos you're in a room and someone else, say Paul, is not, cos he's gone for tests, that they can still hear you, and so Paul discovered the fact that Evil hated him so much he tried to kill him. For most people that would be the biggest shock in their history, but Paul's got a hell of a lot more coming, and it will be fun to watch him react to each of them individually. Maybe space it out over a year or so. *doing the dishes next week* Elle: "You poisoned Lassiter's Lake so Dylan's nuts and baby got infected." *stunned look* / *having Harold around for tea in August* Gail: "You got married to an annoying but nice woman and then didn't even consummate it before dumping her." *really?* / *chairing a Make Poverty History (Eden Hills committee) meeting* Chris Steiger: "You blew up a fruit n veg van." *wtf?* Yeah, looking forward to all 3 of those scenarios. Anyways, apart from a couple of slips (nobody in circa 1986 would have used the term "landline" for a phone, surely) he's doing a vey good job of being really ignorant of his past and with the possibility of romance back on with Gail, this is a great storyline.

The Ringo and Carmella storyline went a bit icky last night, but still not in the someone's-crushing-on-someone-inappropriate way. Ringo thinks moley has stolen Karl's drug kit and is an addict, not matter how K's Choice she gets on him, so his genius plan was to go driving out in the bush and fake a break down, then actually pull a plug or somethign out of the engine so they're stuck there. He's a dickhead. "If you can last tonight without the drugs, then you can do tomorrow and the day after that..." I suppose it's sweet of him, in a semi-abduction kinda way, but he's gotta have other plans or unfettered desires for the skinny one too, cos why wouldn't he go to Frazer, Rosie, Pepper or anyone else for help with what he thinks is a problem? We still don't know what Carmella's go with the pill sis, cos she has been taking pills occasionally, but I'm not sure if they're the same dodgy doc ones or what. So we left those 2 in the bush, Ringo's not answering his phone to Rachel, who's cracking it pretty bad at him, and it's not particularly important what happens at this stage. I've quite not-minded Ringo at all with all his school gang adventures, but with Carmella, he can't help but absorb some of her inanity.

Looks like they're hinting back up that Karl should go back into doctoring too, as he's hating this job with Davo, and also doing free consultations to a few close friends. Lou, most notably, who seems to have a nasty rash around the old... "downstairs". "Your feet?" "Higher" "Head?" "Lower" "Stomach?" "Lower" "Knees?" and so forth. The Are You Being Served treatment continued, hinting many times to the fact that Lou's got a problem with the pecker, but never stating as much. Instead, Karl and Lou came into the house, where the kids were all watching tele on the lounge, and asked Susan if the bedroom was free. *HONNNNNK!* They come out a couple of minutes later with Lou doing his trousers up and saying "I can't tell you how relieved I feel!" *KA-DOINGGGG!!* Then he's got his fly undone!!! *naughty slide whistle noise* Oh man, the looks on Zeke, Lolly and Rachel's faces when they thought their fake Dads were both having sex with each other were pretty priceless. Cheesy as all heck, but brilliant. The problem was just the new green-friendly washing powder Harold's using which is also giving Kerry a rash on her arm, and doubling her size - I'm not convinced they haven't upgraded the baby for an older model. So anyways, Karl's liking being a doctor again, and they're all happy having him for free consultations too.

The green washing powder reminded me - kudos for Susan and Harold's conversation about 2 nights ago about how the gardens were diong it tough under the water restrictions, and Harold's going to change over to mostly natives.

Looks like Lolly might be on the way out soon, or at least she's takling about going back to visit at home cos she misses her step brotehr & sister, and now "JonDad" has kicked the shoulderbruiser out, she misses that home. Her "boyfriend" Zeke, who was very very chuffed over his new title, doesn't want her to go obviously, but ahh, she won't really be missed if she does. It's just a question of what they do with Lou, whether they make him good again and stays, or over the hill and leaves, that the big question is. Option 1 is teh best, option 2 the next, and keeping him flat but on the show is the worst. A coupla more dick jokes, and he can stay forever. In his element tonight, I just hope it's not a grand farewell.

And finally, thinking about how much forethought must go into plannign the plots, it's impressive. They've got these police-crime heavy plots (kidnapping, shonky con people), and they've got to get rid of the cop without making it obvious that's what they're doing. that was pretty simple though, just send Steiger overseas, he's still a side character. But for the dodgy doc Charlotte Stone, they had to get rid of their resident Doctor too, and you can't send Karl away for months, so how about we make him give up medicine for a while... That must have been planned for so long, and then to fit all the plots alongside each other, including the Susan/Karl job stuff, Tom, Holly, London, remarried, Springsteen, plus other non-directly plots... I dunno, it's pretty incredible. I wonder what the big book looks like that has all this chronologically planned out in. Anyways, a new episode in 3 hours. Bye.